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Then (and this is the clever bit) sign a few over to new people you need to have trust you while you’re working with them. They return them when relationship is done. If they like the work, they issue you their recommendation letters citing the ones they held.
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So old letters get more valuable as new letters blockchain on. You use them for more important things. It’s a secure currency because they are only useful in relation to working with you. You can stake a few letters or many, leaf-letters or roots of long chains.
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If they DON’T like the work, they have the option of destroying the letters they hold. You’d have to go back and get new letters from people for the entire destroyed chain. So it’s serious. You’re operating your own ransomware.
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How would you use this? Instead of saying “I really want this job!” you’d say, “I want this job so much I’ll stake my entire TWIMC forest* on this application!” * Set of To Whom It May Concern DAG trees
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You’d literally be staking your reputation. Or at least signing up for a very expensive reputation reconstruction failure mode. Including recommendations from dead people that may not be recoverable.
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You could robustify your reputation forest. If Bob thinks Alice may in future turn out to be a criminal, he stakes his gig with Charlie using both letters from Alice and Dan. That way if Alice goes to jail, her letter can be removed without orphaning the Charlie letter.
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Adding a link to my Internet of Migrants idea thread as a potential application of such a scheme.
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Woke up this AM with a weirdly well-formed idea: “Internet of Migrants” based on routing pack(et)s of 2-10 people point-to-point in humane, conflict-free way that uses an IP-like protocol between cities rather than visa regimes between nations (which suffers border buffer bloat).
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Question re: automated p2p trust transfers: Are you creating new agents / agency anywhere here or simply automating existing agency? In street maint scenario, trust is perpetuated by creating new agent/cy (Roads with an ability to issue request for repairs).
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Perhaps that's the thing here. Assigning agency to what was erstwhile an impersonal artifact (Roads) and smart contracting the rest of the way. In migrant thesis, it's Borders. How do you assign agency to Borders?🤔
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Hmmm so migrants (who lack agency today) could issue a "request for shelter" and have network of globalist good samaritans answer call to take em in for few nights on their way to asylum end state. Those who give shelter can all home swap creating their own virtuealized ecosys?
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